This Film should have won numerous Academy Awards .Best Director, Leading Actress. Supporting Actor, Cinematology. Set Design and Soundtrack.One of the best Films I have ever seen!!!.A piece of Art that has left one of the most profound impacts on me visually.emotional and spiritually.I saw it in Harlem during it's premiere.Introduced to it while lisenting to Imhotep Gary Byrd in NYC.
@fartman114 .. its acceptable nudity because it is in historical context or for educational purposes. Its the same reason the discovery channel can show nudity when it pertains to tribes and their people in traditional garb.
Africa is a continent filled with people of different cultures, heritages, nationalities and so-called "races". I'm sick of people acting like Africa is some monolithic place where everone shares the same ancestry, same country, same ethinicity, same tribe, same phenotype ..etc. It's just as diverse as, if not more than, Eurasia, Oceania and the Americas.
...And do you know that it wasnt always like that? Only AFTER invasion did it get like that. No, once upon a time Africa was all African. There was no where near as many countries in Africa as there is today and nor was there so many ethnicitys. Did you know this? I doubt it because you would have thought twice about typing such foolishness.
Truth is you know little to nothing about Africa in totality. Stop spreading foolishness.
All black people orginated from africa whether yu from puerto rico domincan republic ameerica brazil argentina bahamas jamaica trinidad hati wherever if yu r black and on the western hemisphere 9 times out of 10 yu r decendands of slaves kno ya history we may speak different languages but those where forced upon us yu speak english but yet yu r not from England yu speak Spanish yet yu not from Spain Yu speak Portuguese but yu not from Portugal smdh @ these comments
kno ur enemy decendents of former slavemasters hav the same thoughts about u as their 4fathers just let the time come and they'll show u their colors. they may seem nice on the outside but remember that a garden snake may b harmless but it is still a snake. i wonder if u gave a so called black loving white person money and power what wud they do 2 those same black ppl. don't forget that in the 60s. NOT 2 LONG AGO! whites from all across the nation wud gather n bbq a nigger alive. not 2 long ago!
I first watched this in the theater when it first came out in 93'. I was 12 years old and it impacted me, but now that I'm 29 and locing my hair and connected with my past, it means so much more! Thank you so much for blessing us with this.
False. There are Afro-descent Jamaicans and then there are mixed-race Jamaicans and many Jamaicans that do not have any West/West-Central African ancestry (European, South Asian Indian, East Asian, Levanite). Like other places in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Also nationality is different from ancestry. For example my nationality is American as I was born/raised here (I also have Jamaican citizenship) but my ancestry is to West/West-Central Africa, South Asia, Europe, East Asia
@DaTruth2024 Jamaicans are also Africans. There are Jamaicans that came from Africa before Columbus and peopled the island. There are Jamaicans that came as slaves, some escaped or never enslaved are called Maroons. There are Asians: Indians & Chinese that were brought over as indentured servants. There are the migration from all over and the descendants of the British who were slave owners and the mixing of the so-called races. I am pure Jamaican. The Moto of Jamaica: Out of Many, One People.
@sylmarah77 There is the continent called African, not its original name and there are countries on that continent, within those countries there are various tribes with their unique appearances, languages & customs. Over time due to migration and invasion the appearance & custom of the people of certain country changed, ie. Egypt. Many of African descent do not consider themselves Black. Black is not a race, it is affiliated with no specific land, as white is not a race, they are identities.
So no. I'm not "African". I'm of Akan, Fon, Yoruba, Fulani, Hausa, Igbo, Kongo, Mauca descent but I'm not "African". Also not all Africans are "black" ethier. You have Berbers, Egyptians, Ethiopians, Somalis, Eritreans, Northern Sudanese, Khosian-speaking tribes ..etc. that do not consider themselves "black" ...
and are not considered "black" by others as the do not speak Niger-Congo languages and are not linked with Kondafarian groups neither linguistically, genetically nor phenotypically.
indeed, i lv dis piece cos im embarking on an emancipation project. i think we can do sth together...pls get in touch ma email is sankofaevents@ymail.com..urgent pls. wish u da best as well.
Must never forget the ancestors, for that would be forgetting ourselves (although sadly many of us do). Thank you for posting this video sista, hotep.
@AfriNaija12 ..I was just listening to I believe tha last Gil Scott Album called "We're New Here" where Gil makes a statement saying ..Our Ancestors are with Us and want us to survive so they can live on thru us....
I went to Virginia this summer and I tell you walking on them roads with wheat on one side and corn on the other was an experience I enjpy each time I go there to visit family. I feel my ancestors presense in the wind as it passes through the crops and trees. I love going home to my G-mothers hometown. Peace and quiet.
Some of them ae just as cruel. For some it is in the genes to be haters of black folk and anything non white. Its like they are babies and can't see that the world consist of many other nations and races w/o feeling threatened.
@MsAusarian what and still are we still living under their demonic system and why are you so keen on defending them do you have a white boyfriend/ girlfriend or something
Your reply suprised me. I am pro black 100%. So hell no I don't have a white boyfriend. The fact that I call myself ms Ausarian should tell you that I am pan african. I aint christian (not to offend anyone). but strictly african in my spirituality.
When you said "back then", my question marks meant that they have not changed their make up. they just do it a different way and are politically correct about it now.
sterlingmenthol77 - You should really have kept that to yourself -- you dont care because you are probably still living off the blood, sweat and tears of the African people - ignorant - I hate ignornant motherfuckers!
@osunhoney What makes you think that Sterlingmethol77 is living off the blood sweat and tears of African people? Sterling is more than likely poor white trash who is upset and mad at the world for his circumstances. People who are wealthy and doing well would rather be out shopping and driving nice cars than on youtube posting bullshit comments about people they have no valid reason for disliking.
@ChicoPeligroso - That's a valid point, however, one does not have to be rich to live off of the blood, sweat and tears of African people. There are many challenges that our ancestors went through that opened the way for not only black people but other disenfranchised folks. (poor whites are included) .
Love the jam at the beginning.
Blastaar7 2 days ago in playlist Favorite videos
watching for film class...love youtube sleep in class watch the video at home...take notes still pass
newera2011100 2 months ago
if i ever win the jackpot i re-make this.
BigTimeShowdown 3 months ago
Thank you for posting this!
lilcoco770007 4 months ago
I saw this in college too, I've wanted the song they're singing since then too.
Blastaar7 5 months ago
I saw this back when I was in college. Great movie.
ccbs82 7 months ago
This Film should have won numerous Academy Awards .Best Director, Leading Actress. Supporting Actor, Cinematology. Set Design and Soundtrack.One of the best Films I have ever seen!!!.A piece of Art that has left one of the most profound impacts on me visually.emotional and spiritually.I saw it in Harlem during it's premiere.Introduced to it while lisenting to Imhotep Gary Byrd in NYC.
Jahmylov 8 months ago
I am surprised that this has not been flagged for nudity yet.
fartman114 11 months ago
@fartman114 .. its acceptable nudity because it is in historical context or for educational purposes. Its the same reason the discovery channel can show nudity when it pertains to tribes and their people in traditional garb.
MizContagiouz 3 months ago
Africa is a continent filled with people of different cultures, heritages, nationalities and so-called "races". I'm sick of people acting like Africa is some monolithic place where everone shares the same ancestry, same country, same ethinicity, same tribe, same phenotype ..etc. It's just as diverse as, if not more than, Eurasia, Oceania and the Americas.
DaTruth2024 1 year ago
@DaTruth2024
...And do you know that it wasnt always like that? Only AFTER invasion did it get like that. No, once upon a time Africa was all African. There was no where near as many countries in Africa as there is today and nor was there so many ethnicitys. Did you know this? I doubt it because you would have thought twice about typing such foolishness.
Truth is you know little to nothing about Africa in totality. Stop spreading foolishness.
TheAncientX 8 months ago
Oh wow! I will be watching this film.
landfair03 1 year ago
All black people orginated from africa whether yu from puerto rico domincan republic ameerica brazil argentina bahamas jamaica trinidad hati wherever if yu r black and on the western hemisphere 9 times out of 10 yu r decendands of slaves kno ya history we may speak different languages but those where forced upon us yu speak english but yet yu r not from England yu speak Spanish yet yu not from Spain Yu speak Portuguese but yu not from Portugal smdh @ these comments
KingAziz89 1 year ago 15
@KingAziz89 thumbs up. You could've saved a of time and just told them to read up on the trans atlantic slave trade instead of typing all of that.
Blastaar7 5 months ago
kno ur enemy decendents of former slavemasters hav the same thoughts about u as their 4fathers just let the time come and they'll show u their colors. they may seem nice on the outside but remember that a garden snake may b harmless but it is still a snake. i wonder if u gave a so called black loving white person money and power what wud they do 2 those same black ppl. don't forget that in the 60s. NOT 2 LONG AGO! whites from all across the nation wud gather n bbq a nigger alive. not 2 long ago!
heckler171 1 year ago
El que tenga algo rojo, que lo saque! El que tenga el color de Chango, Chango, que lo saque!
yemonja100 1 year ago
I first watched this in the theater when it first came out in 93'. I was 12 years old and it impacted me, but now that I'm 29 and locing my hair and connected with my past, it means so much more! Thank you so much for blessing us with this.
Choc8Psces 1 year ago
JAMICANS ARE AFRICANS ASSS....KNOW YOUR HISTORY
jengisjohn 1 year ago
@jengisjohn
False. There are Afro-descent Jamaicans and then there are mixed-race Jamaicans and many Jamaicans that do not have any West/West-Central African ancestry (European, South Asian Indian, East Asian, Levanite). Like other places in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Also nationality is different from ancestry. For example my nationality is American as I was born/raised here (I also have Jamaican citizenship) but my ancestry is to West/West-Central Africa, South Asia, Europe, East Asia
DaTruth2024 1 year ago
@DaTruth2024 Jamaicans are also Africans. There are Jamaicans that came from Africa before Columbus and peopled the island. There are Jamaicans that came as slaves, some escaped or never enslaved are called Maroons. There are Asians: Indians & Chinese that were brought over as indentured servants. There are the migration from all over and the descendants of the British who were slave owners and the mixing of the so-called races. I am pure Jamaican. The Moto of Jamaica: Out of Many, One People.
sylmarah77 11 months ago
@sylmarah77 There is the continent called African, not its original name and there are countries on that continent, within those countries there are various tribes with their unique appearances, languages & customs. Over time due to migration and invasion the appearance & custom of the people of certain country changed, ie. Egypt. Many of African descent do not consider themselves Black. Black is not a race, it is affiliated with no specific land, as white is not a race, they are identities.
sylmarah77 11 months ago 2
@jengisjohn
So no. I'm not "African". I'm of Akan, Fon, Yoruba, Fulani, Hausa, Igbo, Kongo, Mauca descent but I'm not "African". Also not all Africans are "black" ethier. You have Berbers, Egyptians, Ethiopians, Somalis, Eritreans, Northern Sudanese, Khosian-speaking tribes ..etc. that do not consider themselves "black" ...
DaTruth2024 1 year ago
@DaTruth2024
You said not all Africans are black. Thats a lie also.
BLACK is not a race and nor is white. If you are trying to act smart at least do a bit of research.
AFRICAN IS a race. Caucasian is a race. Asian is a Race.
Nationailtys are the country where someone resides in.
Ethncicity is the place of Origins. We are African BECUASE our origins is in Africa and the same for Asians and all the other ethnicitys.
Again i say, stop spreading foolishness. Ignorance is not a pretty thing.
TheAncientX 8 months ago 2
@TheAncientX ....Profound Insight!!!
Jahmylov 8 months ago
@jengisjohn
and are not considered "black" by others as the do not speak Niger-Congo languages and are not linked with Kondafarian groups neither linguistically, genetically nor phenotypically.
DaTruth2024 1 year ago
"I'm not an African, I'm an American"...sounds familar.
ZapatistasForever 1 year ago 4
@ZapatistasForever sure does
heckler171 1 year ago
my man shango is 100% pure Jamaican!
Suns2255555 1 year ago
where I cant get the music of the movie? I'm interesting in tribal and african rythms.
JoseBerry 1 year ago
indeed, i lv dis piece cos im embarking on an emancipation project. i think we can do sth together...pls get in touch ma email is sankofaevents@ymail.com..urgent pls. wish u da best as well.
derockghana 1 year ago
What a grave injustice, I get very sad every time I watch this.
med672 1 year ago
@med672 I concur, this kind of coldblooded evil one has in their heart to do such awful things to another human being.
pudddingnpie 1 year ago
YAY!!! Ghana!!! my country. great, beautiful awesome country. miss it so much!
very captivating movie.
elegance212 1 year ago 2
She said I am not African.
sunworship8 1 year ago
I'm not an African...........
Jesus how many coon say that today..... its sad.
zerohero35 2 years ago 3
Must never forget the ancestors, for that would be forgetting ourselves (although sadly many of us do). Thank you for posting this video sista, hotep.
AfriNaija12 2 years ago 35
@AfriNaija12 i will never forget--- Allah u Akbar!!!!!
willthebest1 1 year ago
@AfriNaija12 ..I was just listening to I believe tha last Gil Scott Album called "We're New Here" where Gil makes a statement saying ..Our Ancestors are with Us and want us to survive so they can live on thru us....
Jahmylov 8 months ago
@Jahmylov ..Correction..Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX
Jahmylov 8 months ago
I went to Virginia this summer and I tell you walking on them roads with wheat on one side and corn on the other was an experience I enjpy each time I go there to visit family. I feel my ancestors presense in the wind as it passes through the crops and trees. I love going home to my G-mothers hometown. Peace and quiet.
MrsDomino 2 years ago 3
the spirit of my ancestors calls.....
NativeToungue77 2 years ago 5
Muta!!!!
wenithboy 2 years ago
Thye have done eveything to destroy the African but we like the enegizer bunny and shit.....
wenithboy 2 years ago 4
Im 16 and i dont know why but when I see this movie it makes me feel odd in some kind of way
jrfoi 1 year ago
man white people were so cruel back then
06pimpybabe 2 years ago
Were !!!!!!
wenithboy 2 years ago
and they still are
Airforces101 2 years ago 8
Some of them ae just as cruel. For some it is in the genes to be haters of black folk and anything non white. Its like they are babies and can't see that the world consist of many other nations and races w/o feeling threatened.
MrsDomino 2 years ago 8
back then????
MsAusarian 2 years ago
@MsAusarian what and still are we still living under their demonic system and why are you so keen on defending them do you have a white boyfriend/ girlfriend or something
06pimpybabe 2 years ago
wow..
You misunderstood me.
Your reply suprised me. I am pro black 100%. So hell no I don't have a white boyfriend. The fact that I call myself ms Ausarian should tell you that I am pan african. I aint christian (not to offend anyone). but strictly african in my spirituality.
When you said "back then", my question marks meant that they have not changed their make up. they just do it a different way and are politically correct about it now.
MsAusarian 2 years ago
@MsAusarian yeah sorry i forgot we them hat i said because i made that comment long time my bad but yeah you are right i hate them with a passion
06pimpybabe 2 years ago
im sure your parents are real proud.
balancedeath 2 years ago
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sterlingmenthol77 2 years ago
so why are you watching this?
teacherofculture 2 years ago 5
WTF!!!!
topgamer54 2 years ago
sterlingmenthol77 - You should really have kept that to yourself -- you dont care because you are probably still living off the blood, sweat and tears of the African people - ignorant - I hate ignornant motherfuckers!
osunhoney 2 years ago 9
@osunhoney somali pirates 4 life nigger
sterlingmenthol77 1 year ago
@osunhoney What makes you think that Sterlingmethol77 is living off the blood sweat and tears of African people? Sterling is more than likely poor white trash who is upset and mad at the world for his circumstances. People who are wealthy and doing well would rather be out shopping and driving nice cars than on youtube posting bullshit comments about people they have no valid reason for disliking.
ChicoPeligroso 1 year ago
@ChicoPeligroso - That's a valid point, however, one does not have to be rich to live off of the blood, sweat and tears of African people. There are many challenges that our ancestors went through that opened the way for not only black people but other disenfranchised folks. (poor whites are included) .
osunhoney 1 year ago 4
when was this movie released?
congobigp 2 years ago
1993
queenceezy 2 years ago